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Disability. Dance. Artistry. Conversation Series
With Kevin Gotkin, Claire Cunningham, Jess Curtis, Marissa Perel and Ben Pryor
Co-Presented by Dance NYC Disability. Dance. Artistry. and The Performance Project at University Settlement
Tuesday January 16, 11:00am – 1:00pm
ASL interpretation provided
University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St, Manhattan
FREE / RSVP
Join Dance/NYC for a series of conversations about integrated and disability dance artistry. Organized around upcoming New York City metropolitan area performance activity at the nexus of disability and dance, the series will feature leading artists working at that nexus in conversation with their presenters. The goals of the series are to drive awareness and interest in dance made by and with disabled artists, capture and share lessons learned by featured artists, and generate dialogue and partnerships among attendees. Featured artists are grantees of Dance/NYC’s Disability. Dance. Artistry. Fund, created to advance dance made by and with disabled artists.
The fifth conversation in the series will be a moderated conversation with Kevin Gotkin, Co-Founder of The Disability/Arts/NYC Task Force, feature Claire Cunningham, Jess Curtis/Gravity, Marissa Perel and Ben Pryor.
Accessibility: University Settlement is an accessible entrance venue. If you require reasonable accommodation, please contact Hannah Joo at least two weeks prior to the event via email at hjoo@dance.nyc or call 212.966.4452 (voice only). ASL interpretation will be provided.
Photo by Sven A. Hagolani
White Privilege
A lecture performance
by Thomas F. DeFrantz/SLIPPAGE
Co-Presented by Gibney Dance and Theater magazine (Yale)
Monday, January 15, 2:00 – 3:30pm
Gibney Dance, Studio H, 280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street), Manhattan
Free / RSVP
Is everyone always automatically expected to share the concerns of people of color? Do we all really have to pay attention to race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity? What constitutes “white privilege?” If I’m not interested in being part of some solution, am I really part of the problem? What if I’m a maker/audience/presenter who happens to be interested in love, or formal structure, or myth, or universal qualities of empathy? What am I to do now? This dialogic manifesto-lecture-performance offers strategies for constructing a shared, useful understanding of white privilege and its implacable effects in the world.
This performance is second in the series begun with i am black [you have to be willing to not know] at American Realness 2015. Sonicscape by Quran Karriem.
White Privilege is co-commissioned by Gibney Dance and Theater magazine (Yale) for American Realness 2018.
Photo by SLIPPAGE/Shonda Corbett
Lost and Found Discussion & Reception
A conversation with Will Rawls, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jaime Shearn Coan, Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, Ricarrdo Valentine, Orlando Zane Hunter Jr, Miguel Gutierrez, Judy Hussie-Taylor and more
Co-Presented by Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, and The Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP)
Saturday, January 13, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Danspace Project, 131 East 10th Street, Manhattan
FREE / RSVP
Coinciding with the encore performances of Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd, Danspace Project hosts a panel conversation about the Platform and the work and dialogues it produced with a reception to follow.
Photo by Ian Douglas
Difference and Description: Power, Politics, and the Words We Use
Part Two: Ananya Chatterjea, in collaboration with Michèle Steinwald
Presented by APAP|NYC 2018 Conference in partnership with Ananya Dance Theatre
Monday, January 15 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
New York Hilton Midtown, Gibson Suite, 1335 6th Ave, Manhattan
APAP registration required
How do we understand “innovation,” “cutting-edge,” and “contemporary?” How do artists working with non-mainstream, “culturally specific” aesthetic traditions relate to these categories? This session examines invisible cultural biases in the language we use.
Photo by Paul Virtucio
Decolonizing Curatorial Practice 101
Part One: Michèle Steinwald, in collaboration with Ananya Chatterjea
Presented by APAP|NYC 2018 Conference in partnership with Ananya Dance Theatre
Friday, January 12 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse D, 1335 6th Ave, Manhattan
FREE / RSVP
Michèle Steinwald initiates a group dialogue based in Bryan Brayboy’s “Four Rs,” exploring how to build “Relationships based on Respect and Reciprocity and taking seriously our Responsibility” when presenting individuals and their art works. The session will include practical steps toward breaking down Colonial patterns in curation.
Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou
The Fibers with Which We Weave: Native Artists Decolonizing Performance and Place
Rosy Simas, Christopher K. Morgan, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán in conversation with Native performing arts communities
Co-Presented by Gibney Dance and The Performance Project at University Settlement
Thursday, January 11, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St, Manhattan
FREE / RSVP
Gathering together womanist/queer/trans Indigenous dancemakers, multimedia artists, curators, advocates, and administrators, this dialogue investigates the range of foundational principles embedded in contemporary Native choreographies. What are the Native worldviews, aesthetic systems, and theoretical and methodological practices that decolonize movement and performance? What does it mean to work through, and reverse, the ongoing effects of colonization on our territories—our lands, bodies, and cultures? What roles can individuals and institutions in the dance world play in healing intergenerational trauma and furthering Native sovereignty? How do Native choreographers/directors/performers develop their work and cultivate relationships with diverse local audiences in ways that are respectful, iterative, and site-specific? How are artistic movements and spaces transformed by centering the art, lives, insights, and leadership of Native women and queer/trans Native peoples?
Photo by Photo: Carrie Rosema/Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside Project.
Tere O’Connor
Long Run
Presented by Gibney Dance
Monday, January 15, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Gibney Dance, Studios C, 280 Broadway, Manhattan
Free / RSVP
This informal studio showing features a glimpse at Tere O’Connor’s recently premiered Long Run. The work pushes the emotional content of O’Connor’s movement to physical extremes, allowing time-based elements like polyrhythms, velocity, and duration to overtake the performers as they struggle to bring their bodies into a state of calm.
Long Run is co-commissioned by Live Arts Bard at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College through a Choreographic Fellowship with lead support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and NYU Skirball. The presentation of Long Run is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Cultural Development Fund, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Marta Heflin Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts’ Art Works Grant.
Photo by Chris Kayden, courtesy of Live Arts Bard
In the Works
Dance in Process Resident Artists & Gibney Dance Company
Presented by Gibney Dance
Sunday, January 14, 11:00am – 3:00pm
Gibney Dance, Studios C & H, 280 Broadway, Manhattan
Free / RSVP
In the Works features informal showings from Gibney Dance’s Dance in Process resident artists and Gibney Dance Company. Dance in Process artists include Alice Sheppard, Edisa Weeks, Daria Fain, Moriah Evans, Ni’Ja Whitson, Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith and It’s Showtime NYC! Gibney Dance Company will share an excerpted Gina Gibney’s Drafting Foresight.
11:00am DELIRIOUS Dances / Edisa Weeks in Studio C
11:30am Alice Sheppard / Kinetic Light in Studio H
12:00pm The Commons Choir | Daria Faïn & Robert Kocik in Studio C
12:30pm Moriah Evans in Studio H
1:00pm Ni’Ja Whitson / The NWA Project in Studio C
1:30pm Gibney Dance Company in Studio H
2:00pm Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith in Studio C
2:30pm It’s Showtime NYC! In Studio H
In the Works is made possible with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Photo by Ryan Muir
Rosy Simas
Seneca Women and Haudenosaunee Homelands: Living Memory and Movements
Co-Presented by Abrons Arts Center & Gibney Dance
Thursday, January 11, 5:00pm – 11:00pm
Friday, January 12, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Saturday, January 13, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Sunday, January 14, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Monday, January 15, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Tuesday, January 16, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Abrons Arts Center, Upper Gallery, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Free
Weaving images, text, sound, and movement, Seneca Women and Haudenosaunee Homelands: Living Memory and Movements situates the choreography of Haudenosaunee womanist dancemaker, Rosy Simas, within larger multigenerational familial and tribal Seneca histories and contemporary struggles around land and sovereignty.
Image by JB Gelle
jumatatu m. poe
Let ‘im Move You: Installation
Co-Presented by Abrons Arts Center & Gibney Dance
Thursday, January 11, 5:00pm – 11:00pm
Friday, January 12, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Saturday, January 13, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Sunday, January 14, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Monday, January 15, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Tuesday, January 16, 12:00pm – 11:00pm
Abrons Arts Center, Main Gallery, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Free
Let ‘im Move You is a series of works choreographed by jumatatu m. poe & Jermone “Donte” Beacham that stem from the artists’ seven-year research into J-Sette performance, the performance of joy and the conundrum of Black joy. The series currently consists of three live performance works and an installation.
Installation works include Momentary, Strait or Straight Tagged or Branded or A Brief Moment of Recognition Amidst a Longer Finity of Disruption, and Intervention.